The United States had been scrutinizing Ukraine and Russia since long before the war. But by reducing the time frame to the last few months, already at the beginning of the escalation, when the weapons in Europe were still silent,...
In a land bordering Eurasia, a pivotal region that can guarantee stability or create serious instability, the specter of its entry into a hostile orbit, close to the West, has prompted the Kremlin to intervene militarily to restore the status...
The building has just been hit by Grad rockets. The columns of grey smoke we saw high in the sky as we approached Popasna erupt from the top floors blackened by the flames and devastated by the explosions. No journalist...
In the mid-17th century, the Europeans laid the foundations of international law on sea trade based on the so-called “natural law” or “res communis”. Within the book Mare Liberum, a classic text in the history of international relations, the innovative...
The Russia-Ukraine conflict, besides bringing devastation to respective countries, has also exposed the true nature of friends on each side in times of crisis. 2. Moscow has been taken by surprise by the reticence of Beijing on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine...
The European Union enters 2022 with a dangerously declining ability to set the security agenda along its southern borders in the face of the strategic advances made by Russia, Turkey, and China in North Africa. A house divided, the EU...
Afghanistan represents more of an American political capitulation to a terrorist organization (the Taliban) than a U.S. military defeat. By overruling his military generals, who forewarned that a precipitous American withdrawal would facilitate Taliban’s conquest, U.S. President Joe Biden has...
The Eastern Mediterranean has witnessed a relative calm this year in contrast to last year’s dangerous escalation spiral that almost set off a geopolitical maelstrom involving parts of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. But is the current calm...
After quickly swarming rural districts and more significant urban hubs, Taliban forces entered the Afghan capital Kabul and seized power in an effort noted for scale and speed. The Afghan government should have, in theory, held the upper hand with...
I wish i was killed in one of those explosions here. I think of the girls who were killed in the attack on Kabul University in the classroom above their books and pens and envy them. They are resting in...
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